/ How can observers know that the source code shown results in the compiled binary sold. Compile the code and compare the binaries?
On your own hardware. But, I guess, MS won't let them download the source code to their laptops, or these laptops would have to be destroyed after the review process.
You are unaware of the information that can be extracted (mined) by looking at the big picture.
When a lot of transactions go through an intermediate point (this can easily be detected by just looking at the amounts of money transferred), this point is marked as a possible washer. Then again, looking at the transferred amounts, the "real" transactions that are taking place can be mined. (Even if the washer uses an intermediate network, and divides the transaction into smaller transactions, well, the NSA has algorithms for that).
And even if only the washer could be identified, it is possible, by certain law-enforcement techniques, to extract more information from them.
What Google did is more akin to photographing the contents of the papers you left sitting on your desk...
It is not always legal to photograph through a window without consent, and there are good reasons for that. Also it is not always legal to collect data that is somehow publicly available and to make a database out of it.
Of course. Governments love bitcoin because it is actually traceable. And as an added bonus, the public perception of the bitcoin is that is totally UNtraceable.
a wind turbine with a working life of 20 years will offer a net benefit within five to eight months of being brought online."
Huh? What do the 20 years have to do with that? If it offers a net benefit after 5-8 months, then it doesn't matter if the turbine has a working life of 1 year or 20 years, it offers a net benefit anyway.
(...) though only a small number of the initial wave of takedown requests has so far been processed.
Typical. They use the fastest algorithms to show search results, but when it comes to takedown requests, they just seem to do stuff when it suits them. I hope things will improve, though classical capitalism-theory predicts they will not.
Here's a message to Google employees: Find yourself a more meaningful job. Something in medicine, or in particle physics. Or, just about anything outside of that shady advertisement business.
Also, any mp3 file is contained somewhere in the binary representation of Pi (*) Since you cannot copyright mathematics, music can't be copyrighted either.
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/ How can observers know that the source code shown results in the compiled binary sold.
Compile the code and compare the binaries?
On your own hardware.
But, I guess, MS won't let them download the source code to their laptops, or these laptops would have to be destroyed after the review process.
Why didn't they just sell these bitcoins at a regular exchange?
You are unaware of the information that can be extracted (mined) by looking at the big picture.
When a lot of transactions go through an intermediate point (this can easily be detected by just looking at the amounts of money transferred), this point is marked as a possible washer. Then again, looking at the transferred amounts, the "real" transactions that are taking place can be mined.
(Even if the washer uses an intermediate network, and divides the transaction into smaller transactions, well, the NSA has algorithms for that).
And even if only the washer could be identified, it is possible, by certain law-enforcement techniques, to extract more information from them.
What Google did is more akin to photographing the contents of the papers you left sitting on your desk...
It is not always legal to photograph through a window without consent, and there are good reasons for that.
Also it is not always legal to collect data that is somehow publicly available and to make a database out of it.
You just discovered an additional benefit of this method.
What's amusing is that because it has the word "coin" in its name, people automatically consider it money
They should have named it PonziCoin.
Of course. Governments love bitcoin because it is actually traceable. And as an added bonus, the public perception of the bitcoin is that is totally UNtraceable.
a wind turbine with a working life of 20 years will offer a net benefit within five to eight months of being brought online."
Huh? What do the 20 years have to do with that?
If it offers a net benefit after 5-8 months, then it doesn't matter if the turbine has a working life of 1 year or 20 years, it offers a net benefit anyway.
Therefore, you should always use a tor-like algorithm to connect to the cell tower.
Talking about expensive, if everything becomes virtual, I wonder what that will do to the economy.
And how this can backfire on Google.
They still have the fastest javascript engine in the world.
(...) though only a small number of the initial wave of takedown requests has so far been processed.
Typical. They use the fastest algorithms to show search results, but when it comes to takedown requests, they just seem to do stuff when it suits them.
I hope things will improve, though classical capitalism-theory predicts they will not.
And automation was supposed to make our lives easier...
Seriously, losing access to your e-toy for a minute or two is worth killing over? Get a grip.
People have declared thermonuclear wars for less.
While Google Domains won't include hosting, website building providers Squarespace, Wix, Weebly and Shopify have signed on as partners.
I can already guess the next step: Google offering hosting and online website building.
Even if the discovery is for real, this is _not_ news for nerds.
They have just discovered what has been there all along, for billions of years.
Now, what to _do_ with this discovery, that's the real nerdy part.
After this (*) I really don't care about Disney anymore :(
(*) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Uhh, practically everybody is pirating music and movies, and there is still a law that says this is criminal behavior.
Here's a message to Google employees:
Find yourself a more meaningful job. Something in medicine, or in particle physics.
Or, just about anything outside of that shady advertisement business.
This is assuming you can write 100% bug-free code. You can't, for any realistically sized project.
Also, any mp3 file is contained somewhere in the binary representation of Pi (*)
Since you cannot copyright mathematics, music can't be copyrighted either.
(*) I lost the proof for that
Perhaps somebody of importance started reading slashdot.
In any case, the terminology is confusing. An emulator is a simulator, whereas the reverse is not true.
This is like saying "monkeys versus animals" or "apples versus fruit", putting them on equal footing.
It just doesn't make any sense this way.
Perhaps if your PC runs on an ARM processor, it would be simple.
I'm not sure Ubuntu has an ARM iso.
The author clearly needs to get his terminology straight.
What he describes is more like a "bridge" between the computer and the android device, than a "simulator".